The Jin Grand Ancestral Hall in Changle Village, Lanxi, Zhejiang

Located at No. 30, Guyidong Road, Changle Village, Zhuge Town, Lanxi City, the Jin Grand Ancestral Hall boasts a square, courtyard-style layout, facing south and covering an area of 1,570 square meters. It was built during the late Ming Dynasty. The hall features a front gatehouse leading to a courtyard with a freestanding central hall. Behind the central hall are bedrooms, flanked by seven side rooms on each side. The gatehouse has five bays, with a central entrance flanked by intricately carved drum-shaped stones, and three bays of flat-roofed structures on either side. The beams and frames have been replaced, and the rear eaves columns are made of square bluestone without bases. The central hall also has five bays, surrounded by a corridor and topped with a single-eaved hip-and-gable roof. The central bay has a five-frame beam with double corridors at the front and back, featuring moon beams. The four main pillars are made of cypress, catalpa, tung, and toon wood, respectively, symbolizing "a hundred sons sharing the same spring." The pillars are so thick that one person can hardly embrace them. The secondary bays combine raised beams and penetrating tie-beam structures, also with moon beams. Each pillar has a bracket complex at the top. The central bay has a single-eaved archway-style structure with upturned eaves supported by brackets. The front forehead beams are all moon beams. A horizontal plaque bearing the inscription "Admired for Generations" hangs above the gatehouse. The corridor has a flat ceiling and 16 square bluestone pillars, each with a bracket complex at the top and a square base. The east and west corridors have four pillars and three-frame beams with single corridors at the front and back. The west corridor has collapsed, leaving only the outer wall of the rear eaves. The bedrooms have seven bays, and the beams and frames have been replaced. The front eaves columns are square bluestone without bases. The floor is made of rammed earth, and the roof is a hard-mountain style. This large-scale building, constructed with thick materials, is the main structure in the village and holds significant cultural relic value. It is a national key cultural relic protection unit.